crime and detective fiction

James Ellroy to Write Second LA Quartet

James Ellroy has sold his next four novels to Heinemann for a six-figure sum. The first novel is to be titled Perfidia, and is scheduled for release in 2012. The Bookseller has the story:

The four novels will be set in Los Angeles during the Second World War and will “seamlessly cohere” with the previous quartet and the more recent Underworld USA trilogy, the publisher said, taking major and minor characters from those books and spotlighting them as younger people. Together, the 11 novels will highlight 31 years of American history in “an unprecedented and ambitious manner”.